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15.4 Chemical Properties of Monosaccharides Sugar alcohols such as D-sorbitol, D-xylitol from D-xylose, and D-mannitol from D-mannose are used as sweeteners in many sugar-free products such as diet drinks and sugarless gum as well as products for people with diabetes. Learning Goal Identify the products of oxidation or reduction of monosaccharides; determine whether a carbohydrate is a reducing sugar. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. Oxidation of Monosaccharides Monosaccharides, found mostly as cyclic forms in solution, • have small amounts of the open-chain form present. • have an aldehyde group with an adjacent hydroxyl group that can be oxidized to carboxylic acid by an oxidizing agent such as Benedict’s solution. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. Oxidation of Monosaccharides Sugar acids • are produced from the oxidation of the aldehyde as Cu2+ is reduced to Cu+. • are named by replacing the ose ending of the monosaccharide with onic acid. A carbohydrate (such as the open-chain form of D-glucose) that reduces another substance is called a reducing sugar. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. Oxidation: Fructose to Glucose Fructose, a ketohexose, • contains a ketone group, which usually cannot be oxidized. • can be oxidized in a basic Benedict’s solution when a rearrangement occurs between the ketone group on carbon 2 and the hydroxyl group on carbon 1. • is then converted to glucose, which has an aldehyde group with an adjacent hydroxyl that can be oxidized. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. Oxidation: Fructose to Glucose Fructose, a ketohexose, rearranges to form glucose and is then oxidized in Benedict’s solution. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. Reduction of Monosaccharides The reduction of the carbonyl group in monosaccharides • converts an aldehyde group to alcohol producing sugar alcohols, which are also called alditols. • converts D-glucose to the sugar alcohol D-sorbitol. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. Reducing Sugars The sugar alcohols • are named by replacing the ose ending of the monosaccharide with itol. • include D-sorbitol, D-xylitol from D-xylose, and D-mannitol from D-mannose. • are used as sweeteners in many sugar-free products such as diet drinks and sugarless gum. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. Study Check Write the product of the reduction of D-mannose. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc. Solution Write the product of the reduction of D-mannose. General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: Structures of Life, 5/e Karen C. Timberlake © 2016 Pearson Education, Inc.